A Research About Relationship of Servant Leadership and Employee Loyalty

Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy and also a set of leadership practices. These leaders sets themselves up as an example, lead by serve; The result is also in order to extend its service function. Servant leadership Emphasizes service first.

There is a growing concern about the relationship of servant leadership and employee loyalty recent years, but few are focusing on the intervening mechanisms between them. Especially in China, research on such mediating variables is nearly blank. A research from scientific research publishing , discusses this problem.The following is the part:

 We make our attempt on detecting the role in such relationship by empirical studies through 186 samples using the structural equation model (SEM) method, and reach two conclusions: servant leadership is significantly positive correlated with employee loyalty; employee satisfaction is found to play mediating role which occupies 77% of the total effect between servant leadership and employee loyalty. Our result shows that, to improve employee loyalty, the managers should not only develop their servant leadership style, but also take into consideration the individual needs to improve psychological satisfaction.

(source: scientific research publishing)